“Well, here is the reality. By the most conservative estimate, the US medical system kills 2,250,000 people per decade. That’s the system that’s heading for massive expansion under Obamacare.” – J Rappoport
Everybody knows Jonathan Gruber now. He was a consultant who helped frame the Obamacare law.
He’s stated that that, yes, Obamacare has a tax in its provisions, and yes the public was deceived.
Gruber: “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies…[I]f you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”
Tax? Penalty? Tax? Penalty?
Either way, Obamacare is an order, a command, from on high.
The whole debate hides the real fact: people are being coerced into a system that kill and maims at a staggeringly high level.
No one in Congress or the White House brought that up during the process of promoting and passing the bill. Too hot to handle. Much too hot. Continue reading